Pre-Decimal Banknotes
Lot 2974 Session 10 (7.30pm Wednesday) Pre-Decimal Banknotes
Estimate $80,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $119,000
ONE POUND, Collins/Allen (1910), superscribed issue on the Bank of Victoria one pound, Melbourne, No. E004897, superscribed serial A000009, (R. S21, this note illustrated p.39 Nicholson). A magnificent example, with two folds horizontaly and vertically and two small pin-holes, otherwise extremely fine and extremely rare, the finest known from this bank and the lowest superscribe serial known.
Ex Sir George Foster Pearce, Max Stern & Co Sale 17th nov. 1976 (lot 656) and Dr. Alan Nicholson Collection, Sale 49 (lot 1670).
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Estimate $80,000
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ONE POUND, Collins/Allen (1910), superscribed issue on The National Bank of Australasia Limited, one pound, ...
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Lot 2976
ONE POUND, Collins/Allen (1910), superscribed issue on The Royal Bank of Australia Limited, one pound, ...
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